The American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) publishes Health Facilities Management magazine 10 times per year. This publication has so much valuable information for health care facilities, and a recent issue included an article by Bill Koffel and Elizabeth Keller: Understanding recent door inspection and maintenance codes. A second article in the same issue cites some examples of inaccurate door inspections; this is something we can all learn from.
The articles discuss the concept of vendors offering free or low-cost inspections and then performing the repair work, the qualifications required for inspectors, which doors are actually required to be inspected annually and where this is stated in the Life Safety Code. ASHE and the Center for Health Design have also researched the most common deficiencies in order to resolve the issues and increase the the reliability of opening protectives and the barriers as a whole.
Check out both of these articles here (the second one is linked at the bottom)!
Graphic: ASHE
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I agree with the first one,,,
Latch failure
I would say the second one is gap.
Disallow Fire Door Solutions from your facility!
A couple of things here–I often see glass openings that are too close to the hardware prep, Yet this is not mentioned in the Paragraph 5.2.4.2 of NFPA 80 outlines. Even with improved glazing materials, many of these doors are not in compliance.
And the next to last item on the list. Do they really mean that there are 11 door failures in the famed Parisian art museum?
Hi Terry –
The distance between the light and lock cutouts can vary by manufacturer and by core material, so this information would be part of the manufacturers’ listings rather than being a requirement of NFPA 80.
– Lori